Related Post: You Should Try A Framework That Doesn't Hold Your Hand This is probably going to be a bit of a incoherent ramble. I'm trying to convey a vibe why I find more open libraries and frameworks easier. I have been tinkering with programming for atleast ten years . I have started a huge amount of projects, and most of them have failed. Most of them have failed due to a lack of a…
Friday is my last working day before a four week vacation. Since this is my first year as a full-time employee, rather than on a hourly basis, I don't have any vacation days saved, so I'll take a shorter vacation this year. I'd like to keep a rainy day fund of vacation-days. Being an adult however, it feels like vacation is more about working at home instead. I placed an order for a…
I try to commute to work via bus as much as I can. My local bus-stop is in the middle of the local village center . There is also a small store next to this busstop, where tourists tend to congregate. And next to this store, there is a household who have a dog. This dog (a german shepard) is not a dumb dog. This dog has a yard that is clad with fences and high foliage, except one small sector…
I'm getting stuck in draft hell... I need to make simpler posts again ... I've been yearning for a proper car-pg, something with a slow, difficult campaign/career mode. Most people would point to blackbox era NFS or PS2/3 era Grand Turismo, but I am a late zoomer, and such I have no nostalgia for these games. I hate to say it, but they aren't that good by modern standards…
Did you know that hakkerman.eu was down for about a day? Probably not, but it was. This was caused by a quick power outage, and I have done nothing to make sure it doesnt happen again. It would probably be easy, I need to make sure that all the relevant network interfaces start up automatically and start forwarding ip's correctly, but I can't be bothered at the moment. This is just some…
My thoughts on 📦 Don't put yourself in a box My personal mantra regarding blogging has since the beginning been that I am doing this for myself . That's not to say that you, dear reader, are unimportant. But if a writing a post didn't help me get something of my mind , help me grow or help me refine my ideas , then it wasnt worth posting. I also don't want to limit what I…
In response to In the Battle for Attention I want to start with that I generally agree with this post, however I want to espouse some positivity aswell. Currently there is a strong growth in the indie web. More blogs are being created than are currently dying, and not only that; there is genuine enthusiasm for this old-new vision of the internet. This enthusiasm isn't just skin deep either, I…
If you were wondering why there was a huge uptick in coffe related posts, well I had a opinion... And people had opinions about it... Like a lot of opinions. Like really, a lot of opinions. In hindsight, if I knew that this post would blow up this much, I would have put a lot more thought into it. But hey, it started discussions about the subject, so that's good I guess. I'm going to go…
Okay that's enough stirring the pot in the blogging sphere, didn't expect so many people to have to have an opinion on donating to blogs, but here we are. In hindsight I probably went to put too much emphasis on "blogging as a bussiness", but the responses haven't convinced me either. I'm just tired of money a part of all aspects of my life. Do you want to tell someone that you…
Do note that this is a slightly negative post, there is alot of negativity on the internet at the moment. Take a moment to reflect if you want to expose yourself to more negativity. There are plenty of positive posts out there aswell :) Something that puts a bad taste in my mouth are blogs with this text: Did you like this post, please buy me a coffee? Buy me a coffee, it helps keep the lights on…
As someone with a couple too many hours in Hearts of Iron IV, here are my thoughts on what the sequel should be. What I don't want Pops, markets and consumption Paradox has added consumables markets to all of their latest games, and unlike alot of loud voices, I don't disagree with that turn. Trade is a huge driver of history, and in previous entries it was mostly abstracted due to…
If you are reading this, your HTTP request has entered my real life abode. Admittedly via a Cloudflare tunnel, because CGNAT is a bitch, but another step towards digital autonomy. But what does that mean in practice? Well... Higher latency Worse uptime More points of failure Worse security But it's more fun this way, and that is the important part. Let's take a look at the ratnest We…
Based on Just Fucking Use Go Yo, you just wanna build something that works? Do you have a Device that goes blep blop, chances are that there is a JVM for it. Brother I do not care what is trending at the moment, Java has been sitting here chugging along for decades. "But muh performance" my man the JVM is fast . But be honest with yourself, do you really need that something that is ultra…
Having someone read it is scary... Whenever I write something here, I try to not think too much about who will be reading it. I write primarily for myself, by trying to explain my thoughts and ideas I tend to get a clearer picture of myself . This mentality is why I don't use my real name here, and why I don't have comments. To be crass, I don't write for you. Not that I don't…
Since my camping trip last weekend , I've been thinking about how strees free and spontaneous it was. That's nothing unusal for me, but seeing it in a blogpost made me realize how much more people tend to plan these things Here is the timeline of events, to prove my point: Saturday, 11:00: I feel like camping, I check the weather and since it looks good, I ask my mate if he is up for…
I went camping with a mate this weekend, it was fun. Here are some pictures I took: View from the camping spot Alternative view from the camping spot Early morning wood fired coffee hits the best Espiecially followed by some goulash It was nice to rewind a bit, it's so much easier to leave my phone in my pocket out there. Only reason I even took these pictures is because my partner asked for…
I just ordered my first album ever. Actually I bought two, since the shipping was so expensive. Both CDs are signed, with one of the albums being released just today. I have many times wanted to own my music, instead of paying the exexorbitant spotify monthly fee. However, everytime I remember that no, I wont save any money... Because my mom still pays for my subscription. Anyhow, my music taste…
If you browse to hakkerman.eu , you will end up right here. Well no, you'll end up on my homepage, same-same . You don't have to worry about updating your RSS feeds or whatever. hakkerblog.pages.dev is staying, in reality, hakkerman.eu is just pointing directly towards hakkerblog.pages.dev. The main reason to get this URL for the time being was to get a better email address . Before I…
This post made me realize something quite funny. It is very important for me that you know that everything here is written by real human . I use this blog as a outlet for me to put my thoughs into text. I don't try to write posts that will garner readers or follow trends. I just whatever I want to explore or write about. However, among all this talk of me being a human, I am still anonymous .…
I've always been quite minimalist regarding blogging. I'm not a part of any webring, I don't have any newsletter, no comments or such. Not that I am fundamentally minimalist, syndication is hard, and I've started to bubbles quite heavily. It's mostly because some blogs can be exhausting to just look at, with how much is happening on the page. I initially thought that…
I'm not going to pretend that you are returning reader . You probably came from Bubbles , or perhaps you are one of the few people who has added this blog to their RSS reader . I wouldn't know actually, I very purposefully don't have analytics here, I would either get dissapointed that no one is reading, or stressed that too many are reading (probably both at the middle). But still,…
It's monday today *. The slog of working through the weekdays to get back to the weekend . A whole five days until life continues. So let me ask you: What are you doing tonight? Well, probably chores, maybe even for a couple of hours. And dinner of course, that takes time. But besides that? Even if we tend to want to be pessimistic, "Life is just chores and work" , I can almost guarantee that…
Just noticed that I am featured on bubbles , and that shit slaps! Discoverability is the biggest problem in blogging today, and while I may have managed to get a decent RSS feed, I still continually struggle with finding new blogs. Bubbles works as a syndicator with the wide goal of sharing active, non-corporatized, indie blogs. The problem: Not enough people are using it , most posts have zero…
Follow up on What I Want From Games , with inspiration from the video The 1996 Strategy Game No One Could Play - Until Now (Wages of War) I have realized what it is! The thing that makes or breaks a game for me is that the game assigns you a role , and gives you the means to act withing that role . I have always struggled with pinning down what unifies my favorite games, and why univerally…
And now the blogs are grouped by months aswell
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A many aspiring game devs fetch the latest version of Unity, and get a surge of motivation when they manage to instantiate their first cube. Henceforth follows multiple hours of failing at creating a car using the inbuilt physics engine and rigidbody system. The Unity application lays dormant... If you identify yourself in that paragraph, I implore you to try a more minimalist framework. I was…
I finally finished playing Return of the Obra Dinn (Great game, highly recommended), and that got me thinking about what I want from games. Many times hawe I looked at a game, not really been sold on the idea but being convinced by everyone telling me it's great, and like clockwork being dissapontied by it. Plenty of games that are staple "Amazing Games", like Disco Elysium and Stardew Valley…
I have long struggled with getting things done, or atleast feeling like I'm getting enough done. It feels like there isn't enough time per day to get things done, but every time I tried to prove it by adding up all the mandatory things I needed to do, I was still left with a good handful of hours where I could do whatever I want. A system that I have found to work for me is seting up a…
So to set the scene, I have been using linux since ~2016, and daily driving since ~2019. My path was roughly Ubuntu -> Kubuntu -> Arch, and that is where I have stayed. I used Gentoo a while, but my arch experience made me update every other day, and having to wait for a web-browser to compile for half a hour again took its toll, so back to arch I went. A couple of years went by, life was great, I…
Previous part Milestone 3 is done! For this devlog, I will share the basic gameplay loop in practice. First of, let us look in the shipyard: It's very empty, since we haven't played yet we haven't discovered any upgrades. In lore, we haven't even tried our submarine yet, so we don't know what we want. Let us head out on a quick patrol. Get spotted idiot, we now have 1…
Previous part For this devlog, I simply want to share how I build my UI, since Lemur, the UI library I use, can be a bit tricky. First of all, I recommend creating a sketch. I like to use excalidraw , but you can use whatever you want. When you have that setup, you can start to build your UI. Of course start with the official documentation , but if you want you can probably just follow my example.…
You know the feeling of writing (or creating) something, and it's just... not that good? Here you are, after just having put down a decent amount of effort, and it's not as thoughtful as you hoped it would be. Perhaps it's just better not post this publically, leave it uncreated . I want you to note a dissonance here. Where you judge your work based on the amount of effort you have…
I was today years old when I learnt that the rest of the world don't have roof sockets for lamps and such. Behold! A way of connecting lamps in a safe way! . Demand more from your building codes!
Today is a tragic day, the unit I play with is shutting down. Luckily it isn't anything dramatic or hard feelings, it's just the classic that the leaders don't have the time required. We will have our last operation this Sunday. I have only been a part of the unit for about eight months, so it isn't a life changing event. And to be honest, I was getting tired of the american…
The days go past, but I'm still stuck here. To set the scene, I'm in my mid twenties, moved into a old house a couple of months ago, and while life until now has been a breeze, it's been a bit of a struggle the last couple of years. There are a lot of things I want to do, and things I want to get done, but I just seem incapable of actually managing to do it. Until now, I have mostly…
I don't know why, but gaming just hasn't been too fun lately. Am I becoming old? Do I need to get rid of my ~5000€ steam account? I doubt it, probably it's just life that is heavy at the moment. Nothing dramatic, but just stuff that takes time and energy. I also feel like unmotivated to play since I don't know when I'll have time to continue, and I suck at continuing a…
You know what we all hate these days? Algorithms. Algorithms that decide what we should see, what we should feel, what we should interact with. The concept of using a algoritm to recommend content isn't bad per se , however it's what these algoritms promote that is the problem. It's more often than not something that promotes interaction by making you angry, keeping you on the app…
I am on a journey to detox from the modern net, because it doesn't make me happy. I haven't ever really been a social media person. As someone who never got into it, it just seems absurd. However, I have plenty of apps where you can scroll, and scroll, and scroll . Some of these apps could be considered social media, like a Lemmy and Youtube client, or straight up social media apps like…
I have been making a game about being a uboat "captain" for a couple of months now. It has been very on and of, so don't expect actual "months" of work. The Story Your character is a native of a small island chain that God forgot. It is a colony of The Crown Dominion (read Great Britain), however this is mostly just in name. The capital has mostly forgotten that these islands exists, and…
Let me name some of my favorite games: Only slightly adjusted to fit my point Rule The Waves 3 IL2 - Battle of Stalingrad Dirt - Rally 2 ArmA My Summer/Winter Car What do these games have — yes of course it's that they have career modes, either natively, implied or community made. In Rule The Waves 3, you play as the grand (imortal) admiral of a nation, in Dirt Rally 2, you play as a…
If you look through enough of my posts, you can probably figure out that english is not my primary language. I specifically don't have any spellchecker when I write these posts, so often a bunch of typos slip in. I however, don't care. I skim through my posts before posting them, and if I see something that is obviously wrong then I fix it. However, a misspelling a word like immediately…
Why did no one tell me I could just setup colours in CSS and it auto adjusts based on the users OS!? Well now my blog looks a bit different, no need for a darkmode plugin anymore!
Writing Firstly, I usually write my posts during work hours (don't tell my boss), mostly during downtime or while waiting for builds. I usually write whatever comes to mind, which is alot because there is quite a lot of downtime at the moment, and boredom is the best way to find motivation and ideas. Since I use Zola, I just write markdown right in the project. I use Visual Studio Code, since…
A response to the discussion in general, but primarily based on The Case For Comments Comments can take the role of truth sayer I have noticed a lot of people when they are presented with an opinion they are unsure if they agree with, they will impulsively check the comments to see if they should agree with it. Without comments, the reader is forced to actually think about what they think about…
Related/Continued from Meaningfulness To pray what I preach In the above linked post, I described how boredom is a powerful tool to find motivation. Now I'm no saint, whenever I find myself bored, I do just like everyone and bring up my rectangle of doom phone. However, the other day I decided to actually pray what I have preached, and holy shit did I have time and motivation to stuff. I…
I have met people from all walks of life. I have met millionares and people living on benefits. I have met people who are doing fine, and people in deep depressions. I have met people that grew up in a strict household, and I have met people who had to raise themselves. However, I have found one primary way to gauge how happy people are. Are they doing something that they consider meaningful? It…
What is happiness? Finland often tops the world happiness charts, which most people probably find weird. How come a country with a middling GDP, in a poor climate, no oil, dark winters, etc, is so happy? There is a misconception about happiness. Think of a happy person, you are thinking of a smiling person, perhaps a laughing person — But that is not happiness. Happiness is something deeper, being…
Followup on The AI Engame by Adam Something Something that has bugged me for a long time is how accepting people are for monthly fees. I hate monthly fees, I have never understood how people seem to think its "cheaper". In theory, there is a market for renting or services, for example, I pay a monthly fee for internet and electricity, because its a ongoing service. Back in the day of rental…
I pride myself on not having analytics here. If you're reading this, then I have no idea. The only way I know if people are reading my blog is either if my cloudflare quota fills up, if people contact me, or view the Contact page (the form provider in my contact page does have analytics that can't be turned off). I tell myself that I shouldn't care about if people read what I write,…